Example sentences of "[noun] [num] as the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Under the system of rotating leadership Mesic was due to assume office on May 15 as the first non-communist president . |
| 2 | It is proposed to take the seven functions of budgets on pages 49/50 as the first dimension of a matrix structure to which either the rational economic or a political model can be applied in order to form the second dimension . |
| 3 | The BTO/BASF Garden Bird Survey started in September 1987 as the first ever , year-round study of garden birds . |
| 4 | In mid-January India had secured from the IMF the equivalent of US$1,800 million ( $777 million as the first tranche of a standby arrangement and $1,009 million under the compensatory and contingency financing facility — CCFF ) in order to boost foreign exchange reserves which had been eroded by rising oil prices and the loss of remittances from the Gulf and which had reached an unprecedented low in late 1990 . |
| 5 | Begum Khaleda Zia , leader of the centre-right Bangladesh Nationalist Party ( BNP ) , was sworn in on March 20 as the first woman Prime Minister of Bangladesh . |
| 6 | To coincide with world environment day , the government announced Operation Amazonia on June 5 as the first stage in a drive to combat the destruction of the rainforest . |